Legal Opinion
Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. Blunk
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided September 27, 1951No. Civ. No. 1-6PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, District Judge.
This is an action for demurrage which is claimed to have accrued against defendants as copartners, on carload shipments delivered by plaintiff to defendants, as consignee, at the Iowa Ordnance Plant, West Burlington, Iowa, after transportation there in interstate commerce over plaintiff’s lines of railroad in Illinois and Iowa.
Defendants admitted delivery at the times and place alleged, the correctness of the amount claimed, but denied any liability to pay therefor, urging that such delays, if any, were due to circumstances wholly beyond their control. They allege that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Merchants Warehouse Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Baldwin v. Scott County Milling Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Southern Ry. Co. v. WhiteCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1922
3Cited by9 opinions
- St. Louis, Southwestern Railway Co. v. MaysDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1959
- Port Terminal Railroad Association v. Connell Rice & Sugar Co., Inc., Connell Rice & Sugar Co., Inc. v. Port Terminal Railroad AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. TerrellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1966
- St. Louis-Southwestern Ry. Co. v. FarrellDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1953
- Western Maryland Railway Co. v. Continental Grain Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1963
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